Steam locos
I am wondering what you painters do when painting a steam engine.......
.......and how you painters out there handle painting the smoke box silver. Do you paint the whole thing black first then mask the boiler, running boards and in my case the air pump and then spray the silver? What about the handrails and stanchions, head light and stack? Do you hand paint the silver?
Steam Powered Snowplow 2020 video
Outstanding scenery, sound and video. The dead silence of winter and whistle sounds echoing through the mountains.
What's on your workbench? March 2020
It might not look like much, in fact it may look a little odd, but this will be the first locomotive I've installed ditch lights on. Here the SMD LED's are fished through the shell, and they've been wired to the DecoderBuddy (one of the very early ones).
The ditch light mounts are Details West DL-229 parts, currently having the canopy glue holding the lenses in drying. 
Old hardware in Boston that sells trains and parts.
Awhile back had shown a old diesel locomotive picture that had the drive shaft outside body and run between the two sets of motors. If I remember correctly some one told me it was old hardware store in the Boston area. Any help would be appreciated.
What LEDs for HO Steam Loco Headlight??
I want to replace a few incandescent bulbs in my old, HO formerly-DC locomotives. What size LEDs usually fit in these locos, and what "color" LEDs look the most realistic for the 1920s?
Thanks
High or Mega bass speakers worth it?
Need a new speaker for my Bachmann HO 2-8-0. I have a TCS WOW steam decoder installed. Am considering one of the High or Mega bass speakers. Is the sound significantly better than the standard speaker?
Thanks
Jim
Adding Weight to Brass or Plastic Locomotives
Just ran across this posting on a repower/regear discussion,.....quite alarming
Don’t ever use white glue to hold lead into any sort of brass model, and preferably never use it at all in any model.
British Prototype Trains and Layouts Have Appeal
Recently, I’ve been looking at British prototypes for modeling in a small space. Having only known American style trains, I had always thought the British and European prototypes looked rather strange. However, It seems to me that British profile model trains and layouts have several things in their favor. First is smaller equipment, like mainline 0-6-0’s and smaller rolling stock, for both freight (goods), and passenger.
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